architecture appreciation thread

[chillywilly2]

I tried.......But, it's the GB!

Architects...just big babies

 

[pete]

Architects...just big babies

see, this is why i keep samples of granite on my desk - so i can fling them at mouthy contractors.

 

[chillywilly2]

see, this is why i keep samples of granite on my desk - so i can fling them at mouthy contractors.

If you can draw it, we can build it

 

[JohnnySavage]

No bench seat? How are you going to fuck in there?

Well... women aren't generally attracted to me, so such was never a consideration.

 

[thør]

Architects...just big babies

I'm working with a good one on 3 different projects right now.

Photos below are in the same climate, but are unrelated to the above part of this post.

http://www.featureshoot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Eirik_Johnson_12.jpg

http://www.featureshoot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Eirik_Johnson_13.jpg

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm working with a good one on 3 different projects right now.

Photos below are in the same climate, but are unrelated to the above part of this post.

http://www.featureshoot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Eirik_Johnson_12.jpg

http://www.featureshoot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Eirik_Johnson_13.jpg

What part of that required an Architect...the furniture placement?

 

[thør]

What part of that required an Architect...the furniture placement?

Architecture doesn't require an architect.

 

[JohnnySavage]

For Pistol Pete

The five best Brutalist buildings in DC


I wouldn't consider the AIA building brutalist, but what do I know. My Number 1 would be the FBI building.

 

[thør]

Home architecture to the max - Le Schtroumpf Haus!

 

[oggbashan]

Dame Zaha Hadid has died.

Tributes are being paid to the controversial architect Dame Zaha Hadid:

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid, who was known for her designs for the London Aquatics Centre at the 2012 Olympics, has died.

Dame Zaha's company said she had died in Florida.

It issued a statement saying: "It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid, DBE died suddenly in Miami in the early hours of this morning.

"She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital."

She was 65 years old.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35936768

http://news.sky.com/story/1670462/british-architect-dame-zaha-hadid-dies-aged-65

http://www.constructionweekonline.com/pictures/aqua_1.jpg

 

[thør]

Tributes are being paid to the controversial architect Dame Zaha Hadid:

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/Pictures/780xany/0/9/4/3015094_04_ZHA_MMM_Corones_Inexhibit.jpg

Messner Mountain Museum, Corones (2015)

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[barefootgirl69]

Nottingham, England

I see the modern...but, I'm a bit partial to the old. Watson Fothergill of Nottingham, England. One day I will get over there, and this is on my list of places to visit.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c8/e2/25/c8e2250c6e77ea75e536790119fc049d.jpg

 

[pete]

Home architecture to the max - Le Schtroumpf Haus!

mushroom house? interesting...

Tributes are being paid to the controversial architect Dame Zaha Hadid:

i wasn't a fan of much of her work, but i respected her dedication to the industry

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/Pictures/780xany/0/9/4/3015094_04_ZHA_MMM_Corones_Inexhibit.jpg

Messner Mountain Museum, Corones (2015)

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this looks like a difficult installation, thanks for sharing

I see the modern...but, I'm a bit partial to the old. Watson Fothergill of Nottingham, England. One day I will get over there, and this is on my list of places to visit.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c8/e2/25/c8e2250c6e77ea75e536790119fc049d.jpg

love the intricacies of the façade !

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

The Third & The Seventh. [vimeo]

 

[thør]

Don't throw stones.

 

[Saint Peter]

Don't throw stones.

Creepy!

 

[pete]

definitely, a lot of magazines used to highlight glass structures like these but they're so impractical it never made much sense to me.

"demonstrates the firm's desifn capabilities"? fail.

 

[Not Normal]

Don't throw stones.

For those who hate privacy.

 

[Saint Peter]

For those who hate privacy.

And heat in the winter.
And cool in the summer.
And easy cleaning.
And reasonable acoustics.

 

[Not Normal]

And heat in the winter.
And cool in the summer.
And easy cleaning.
And reasonable acoustics.

indeed

 

[Saint Peter]

indeed

There was a design program at a community college in Denver. They had a display case of all the great designs the little Einsteins came up with. The problem was none of them were functional. Why waste the time if it cannot be fabricated and utilized.

Same with the glass house.

 

[thør]

There was a design program at a community college in Denver. They had a display case of all the great designs the little Einsteins came up with. The problem was none of them were functional. Why waste the time if it cannot be fabricated and utilized.

Same with the glass house.

Evidently, constructability and functionality was not a main requirement.

I was at a pre-design meeting once where the client's architect (from Denver area) wanted to gain LEEDs points and had planned to use sheetrock from demo-ed buildings for non structural fill on a project. The problem that he did not understand, was that there was not enough sheetrock in the entire town (in-place) to use. He thought that a town above the arctic circle in north west Alaska had the same infrastructure as a town on the road system in CO. After a day of argument over many things, he took a trip to the town and finally figured it out. He still had the job, but he had to hire a team of experienced arctic designers to do the majority of the work. So, his curved wall is still there.

 

[pete]

There was a design program at a community college in Denver. They had a display case of all the great designs the little Einsteins came up with. The problem was none of them were functional. Why waste the time if it cannot be fabricated and utilized.

Same with the glass house.

there's a point to design theory that's independent of pragmatism, or functionality. the envelope must be pushed.

if designers only listened to builders and focused solely on what's the easiest constructable structure, the world would look like the worst parts of soviet russia

even so, it takes compromise, collaboration and creativity for a design to make it from page to punch list. there will always be bitching.

 

[pete]

interesting article on the dangers of construction, internationally

http://www.archdaily.com/506019/opinion-architecture-should-not-cost-lives/5372706dc07a80c692000100-opinion-architecture-should-not-cost-lives-photo

 

[Saint Peter]

I flew into Providence RI last week. The car rental facility is 56485545 miles away from the airport so they built a flyover with people movers to get you from the terminal to rental car hell. People movers on the sides, golf carts hauling ass down the middle.

They did a cool thing with the duct work running the length of the structure. Rectangular duct that stayed constant in X and Y but the Z had an oscillation. It produced a very visually interesting element to what would have been an incredibly boring square box.

https://providencechamber.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/peoplemover.jpg